October 10, 2025 • 10 mins
Ryan Rabinowitz of The Motown Rundown podcast joins Trent to react to the Red Wings' opening night loss to the Canadiens, and also look ahead to the Lions @ Chiefs matchup and Tigers @ Mariners in Game 5 of the ALDS. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Where do you go for Ireland's biggest thrillers, craziest finishes,
wildest upsets and fiercest post match debates.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Good afternoon, Gee there, you're very welcome to the program.
Speaker 1 (00:08):
An awful lot of live sports on the way, well
over a million of you. Go to Ireland's number one
radio station, Artie Radio one. Listen now on Arte Radio Player.
So I hurt my hip at the gym and ended
up at PHI Urgent Care. They really took care of me.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
They referred me to one.
Speaker 3 (00:26):
Of their physios and while working on my core, the
physio notised I was walking a little oddly, so she
refers me to a VHI pediatrist and he was able
to help me correct my gait.
Speaker 4 (00:38):
So yeah, it was.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
It was really great how VHI was able to connect all.
Speaker 4 (00:41):
The dots.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
VHI, because your health means everything.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
It's a football Friday here on Axis and Bros. We're
back and we've got a very special guest. Ryan Rabinowuch,
the main man of the Motown Rundown podcast, specializes if
I might add in the Red Wings coverage, Soul Rabs.
Let's just jump right into it because the Wings start
the season with a five to one loss to Montreal
(01:11):
last night. I know Todd McLellan can coach, but why
does this team look so unprepared out of the gate.
Speaker 4 (01:17):
Again, Yeah, well it wasn't.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
A great way to start the season, no doubt. Yeah,
he heard him talk in the in the postgame press conference,
and you know he talked. Todd McClellan talks a lot
about managing the game and just you know, being being
in the right spots in certain situations and understanding how
to manage the puck and you know, positional hockey and
(01:44):
just like really really fundamental details.
Speaker 4 (01:47):
Of the game. And it was definitely bizarre last night.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
I actually thought that the Wings looked good, especially to
start the game. They scored the first goal of the
game on the power play, really nice goal, nice feedby
Patrick Caine to get things going. Dylan Lark and jams
home the rebound.
Speaker 4 (02:03):
So I thought they looked.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
Good truly, And I think for what it's worth, and
how do you walk away from a game in which
you lose five to one and have anything positive to say?
But I just thought they looked more competent. I think
they definitely look a step faster, which is probably attributed
to having you know, three rookies on the roster, three
younger guys that are carrying the load. But you know,
(02:27):
at the end of the day, a couple defensive breakdowns,
the defensive pairing of Albert Johanson and Travis Hammond at
they were a combined minus six on the ice last night.
They played together for a large part of the night.
Speaker 4 (02:40):
But I don't know, Trent, I don't know what to
tell you. I mean, you know, it's a.
Speaker 3 (02:45):
Long season, obviously, and I think to come out on
your home ice to start the year and you're wearing
the nice new centennial jerseys, you get some buzz with
having three rookies in the lineup. You know your name name,
two permanent alternate captains this year and Lucas Raymond and
Mosider and Montreal is coming on.
Speaker 4 (03:06):
I'm the second part.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
Of a back to back where they just played in
Toronto the night before. Everything set up for you to
take advantage of this game, and you know, I think
it was I think it was frustrating, probably for Wings
fans that were in the building, because you know, outside
of the first I don't know, seven minutes of the
game where you know, you score the first goal and
(03:28):
you're looking like things are in control of just you know,
when it rains, it pours, And I just think it
was a collection of defensive breakdowns. You didn't do a
very good job of holding strong in the middle of
the ice. You know, John Gibson would probably like to
have that game back, even though there really weren't a
lot of goals that I can look at him and
(03:48):
say that you had to make a big save there.
Speaker 4 (03:50):
But but but yeah, it was not great. For sure.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
You start the season with five games in a row
against Atlantic Division opponent. We had John Foreslin on the
show yesterday and he made the claim that the Atlantic
Division is probably the deepest in the league. Do you
agree with that assessment and why and why not?
Speaker 3 (04:09):
Yeah, I mean I think it is. And I mean,
number one, you're you're in a division that has the
back to back Stanley Cup champions in the Florida Panthers.
I think, you know, you have a team in Toronto
that's that's always dangerous, and you know, talk about a
team that couldn't be more hungry to do some damage.
Speaker 4 (04:28):
And I just think with.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
Each year, all these teams are are getting better in
your division. Truly, I don't.
Speaker 4 (04:34):
I don't think.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
There's any teams left.
Speaker 4 (04:36):
You know, maybe you can.
Speaker 3 (04:36):
Make the case for Boston that you know, they might
be a team that's probably looking to do some sort
of rebuilding. But I think that's the tough The tough
thing about a team like Boston is that it's now
two and o to start the season. Is you know,
no matter how depleted their roster looks, based on where
they're at and their own timeline, like, they're going to
(04:57):
give you a fight every night. There's there's no easy
games in the NHL. Even you know, you look at
some of these these teams that you probably deem as
being the bottom featers of the league, you know, they
still try to put up a.
Speaker 4 (05:10):
Fight no matter what.
Speaker 3 (05:11):
So, you know, teams like that, I think the frustrating
thing for Red Wings fans is you're probably looking at
Florida and Toronto and Tampa Bay as the three premier
teams in that division.
Speaker 4 (05:23):
But you know, you look at Buffalo.
Speaker 3 (05:25):
As a younger team that is you know, has kind
of been on the doorstep for a couple of years now,
they continue to get better. Montreal after a pretty uh
rough rebuild for them, I mean they they're getting better
and better each year. Ottawa, and those are teams that
you would think by now that you're a step in
front of. But that just go just a testament to how.
Speaker 4 (05:48):
Good the league is.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
That you know, these teams that seemingly, you know, you
should be better than at this point have done a.
Speaker 4 (05:55):
Great job of putting some pieces together.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
And getting in some young talent, and you know they're
not thrown away anytime soon. So it's it's not an
easy division and it hasn't been for several years now.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
All right, let's shift to baseball because we do have
a Game five tonight winner take all for a trip
to the Alcs to take on the Toronto Blue Jays.
Do you have schoobl and the Tigers getting it done
tonight and do you think that they broke out of
the offensive slump for good in Game four?
Speaker 4 (06:22):
Yeah? I mean I don't.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
I don't know if you can feel much better about
the situation tonight where you do have Trek Scooble going
into Seattle and you know, I believe they've I think
they've handed him three maybe four losses so far this season.
Speaker 4 (06:36):
They're the only team that's really gotten to him. Consistently.
Speaker 3 (06:40):
So yeah, I don't I don't know how you don't
feel positive about it as a Tigers fan, especially given
the fact that you know, you did have kind of
an offensive resurgence last game.
Speaker 4 (06:51):
And I also think the pitching sets up really well
that you'll.
Speaker 3 (06:54):
Probably have Kyle Finnegan available, You'll have Will Best available, you,
you'd have Troy Melton available.
Speaker 4 (07:01):
There's you know, and who knows.
Speaker 3 (07:03):
With with Casey meisby and taken out after three innings
the other day. You know, I don't know if you
see him come out of the bullpen. So to me,
this game tonight, you know, Trek Scooble is gonna get
the pitch until his arm falls off or he tells
aj Hinch verbatim, you know I'm done. In terms of
the offense, I mean it was just I was actually
(07:24):
at Game four and it just I mean that that
Comerica Park was was a morgue for four and a
half innings until you know it's it's one hit, and
then you're kind of joking like, oh, you know, here
we go. Here comes the offense, because we've seen this
story before. You get one base runner on and they
get stranded or you don't move them or you know,
(07:44):
the inning ends quickly after that. But it was, you know,
it was hit after hit after hit, and it was
just contagious as his hitting is in baseball. And yeah,
I think that the thing that I keep coming back
to Trent is like it feels like every player on
this roster, you know, has kind of had a moment
(08:06):
and you're still kind of looking down the checklist the
guys that maybe haven't had that moment yet, and there's
there's still room for that in game five. So you
have to hope a guy like you know, Zach McKinstry,
who came.
Speaker 4 (08:18):
Up pretty big in the last game. You know, even
a Parker.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
Meadows who really hasn't had his big moment yet. You
hope that those guys kind of joined the party. And
you know, baseball such an up and down game. You know,
you can you can explode for nine runs in one
game and you can come back and score zero the
next game. It just it is what it is. Look
at the Brewers. The Brewers got shut out last night.
You know, if you would have told me after Game
(08:41):
one against the cub that they would be sitting here
looking at.
Speaker 4 (08:44):
A game five, do or die.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
Going back to Milwaukee, I would have told you you're
nuts because of how good they they looked in those
first couple of games.
Speaker 4 (08:51):
So, you know, I think to be able.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
To see the ball the way the Tigers as well
as the Tigers were in the second and half a game,
for there's just not a better situation, especially given that
this team looked like they were laying face down on the.
Speaker 4 (09:08):
Mat for a while.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
One last thing for you, Ryan before we hit a
break here in about one minute, so I got to
make this one quick. But Lions do take on the
Chiefs on Sunday night football? Did the Chiefs scare you
out all anymore? And how do you see this one going?
Speaker 3 (09:20):
No? I mean I think you have to respect them
because of their their success and when you have, you know,
probably the best quarterback.
Speaker 4 (09:27):
In the league. I don't I mean, I don't think
anyone would push back on that. Still, you know, you
obviously have to play.
Speaker 3 (09:33):
It's a tough place to play, but I think the
Tigers have kind of already slayed that demon, as well
as several other demons in in the league, and you know,
within their own storyline here.
Speaker 4 (09:44):
So if any if anyone.
Speaker 3 (09:45):
Should feel you know, nervous going into that game at home.
Speaker 4 (09:49):
It's the Chiefs.
Speaker 3 (09:49):
They got to keep winning football games and stay alive themselves,
so I feel great about it.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
Ryan rebinowis Motown, Rundown. Follow him on Twitter at our
Rebino WIT's for Revs. I know it's a quick one,
but thanks so much for joining us.
Speaker 4 (10:01):
My pleasure, Trent, Enjoy your morning.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
Where do you go for Ireland's biggest thrillers, craziest finishes,
wildest upsets and fiercest post match debates.
Speaker 4 (10:10):
Good afternoon too, there, You're very welcome to the program.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
An awful lot of live sports on the way, well.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
Over a million of you go to Ireland's number one
radio station, Artie Radio one. Listen now on Artie Radio Player.
Speaker 5 (10:25):
Looking for something a little different for your next team day,
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Where do you go for Ireland's biggest thrillers, craziest finishes,
wildest upsets and fiercest post match debates.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Good afternoon, Gee there, you're very welcome to the program.
Speaker 1 (00:08):
An awful lot of live sports on the way, well
over a million of you. Go to Ireland's number one
radio station, Artie Radio one. Listen now on Arte Radio Player.
So I hurt my hip at the gym and ended
up at PHI Urgent Care. They really took care of me.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
They referred me to one.
Speaker 3 (00:26):
Of their physios and while working on my core, the
physio notised I was walking a little oddly, so she
refers me to a VHI pediatrist and he was able
to help me correct my gait.
Speaker 4 (00:38):
So yeah, it was.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
It was really great how VHI was able to connect all.
Speaker 4 (00:41):
The dots.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
VHI, because your health means everything.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
It's a football Friday here on Axis and Bros. We're
back and we've got a very special guest. Ryan Rabinowuch,
the main man of the Motown Rundown podcast, specializes if
I might add in the Red Wings coverage, Soul Rabs.
Let's just jump right into it because the Wings start
the season with a five to one loss to Montreal
(01:11):
last night. I know Todd McLellan can coach, but why
does this team look so unprepared out of the gate.
Speaker 4 (01:17):
Again, Yeah, well it wasn't.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
A great way to start the season, no doubt. Yeah,
he heard him talk in the in the postgame press conference,
and you know he talked. Todd McClellan talks a lot
about managing the game and just you know, being being
in the right spots in certain situations and understanding how
to manage the puck and you know, positional hockey and
(01:44):
just like really really fundamental details.
Speaker 4 (01:47):
Of the game. And it was definitely bizarre last night.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
I actually thought that the Wings looked good, especially to
start the game. They scored the first goal of the
game on the power play, really nice goal, nice feedby
Patrick Caine to get things going. Dylan Lark and jams
home the rebound.
Speaker 4 (02:03):
So I thought they looked.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
Good truly, And I think for what it's worth, and
how do you walk away from a game in which
you lose five to one and have anything positive to say?
But I just thought they looked more competent. I think
they definitely look a step faster, which is probably attributed
to having you know, three rookies on the roster, three
younger guys that are carrying the load. But you know,
(02:27):
at the end of the day, a couple defensive breakdowns,
the defensive pairing of Albert Johanson and Travis Hammond at
they were a combined minus six on the ice last night.
They played together for a large part of the night.
Speaker 4 (02:40):
But I don't know, Trent, I don't know what to
tell you. I mean, you know, it's a.
Speaker 3 (02:45):
Long season, obviously, and I think to come out on
your home ice to start the year and you're wearing
the nice new centennial jerseys, you get some buzz with
having three rookies in the lineup. You know your name name,
two permanent alternate captains this year and Lucas Raymond and
Mosider and Montreal is coming on.
Speaker 4 (03:06):
I'm the second part.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
Of a back to back where they just played in
Toronto the night before. Everything set up for you to
take advantage of this game, and you know, I think
it was I think it was frustrating, probably for Wings
fans that were in the building, because you know, outside
of the first I don't know, seven minutes of the
game where you know, you score the first goal and
(03:28):
you're looking like things are in control of just you know,
when it rains, it pours, And I just think it
was a collection of defensive breakdowns. You didn't do a
very good job of holding strong in the middle of
the ice. You know, John Gibson would probably like to
have that game back, even though there really weren't a
lot of goals that I can look at him and
(03:48):
say that you had to make a big save there.
Speaker 4 (03:50):
But but but yeah, it was not great. For sure.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
You start the season with five games in a row
against Atlantic Division opponent. We had John Foreslin on the
show yesterday and he made the claim that the Atlantic
Division is probably the deepest in the league. Do you
agree with that assessment and why and why not?
Speaker 3 (04:09):
Yeah, I mean I think it is. And I mean,
number one, you're you're in a division that has the
back to back Stanley Cup champions in the Florida Panthers.
I think, you know, you have a team in Toronto
that's that's always dangerous, and you know, talk about a
team that couldn't be more hungry to do some damage.
Speaker 4 (04:28):
And I just think with.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
Each year, all these teams are are getting better in
your division. Truly, I don't.
Speaker 4 (04:34):
I don't think.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
There's any teams left.
Speaker 4 (04:36):
You know, maybe you can.
Speaker 3 (04:36):
Make the case for Boston that you know, they might
be a team that's probably looking to do some sort
of rebuilding. But I think that's the tough The tough
thing about a team like Boston is that it's now
two and o to start the season. Is you know,
no matter how depleted their roster looks, based on where
they're at and their own timeline, like, they're going to
(04:57):
give you a fight every night. There's there's no easy
games in the NHL. Even you know, you look at
some of these these teams that you probably deem as
being the bottom featers of the league, you know, they
still try to put up a.
Speaker 4 (05:10):
Fight no matter what.
Speaker 3 (05:11):
So, you know, teams like that, I think the frustrating
thing for Red Wings fans is you're probably looking at
Florida and Toronto and Tampa Bay as the three premier
teams in that division.
Speaker 4 (05:23):
But you know, you look at Buffalo.
Speaker 3 (05:25):
As a younger team that is you know, has kind
of been on the doorstep for a couple of years now,
they continue to get better. Montreal after a pretty uh
rough rebuild for them, I mean they they're getting better
and better each year. Ottawa, and those are teams that
you would think by now that you're a step in
front of. But that just go just a testament to how.
Speaker 4 (05:48):
Good the league is.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
That you know, these teams that seemingly, you know, you
should be better than at this point have done a.
Speaker 4 (05:55):
Great job of putting some pieces together.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
And getting in some young talent, and you know they're
not thrown away anytime soon. So it's it's not an
easy division and it hasn't been for several years now.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
All right, let's shift to baseball because we do have
a Game five tonight winner take all for a trip
to the Alcs to take on the Toronto Blue Jays.
Do you have schoobl and the Tigers getting it done
tonight and do you think that they broke out of
the offensive slump for good in Game four?
Speaker 4 (06:22):
Yeah? I mean I don't.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
I don't know if you can feel much better about
the situation tonight where you do have Trek Scooble going
into Seattle and you know, I believe they've I think
they've handed him three maybe four losses so far this season.
Speaker 4 (06:36):
They're the only team that's really gotten to him. Consistently.
Speaker 3 (06:40):
So yeah, I don't I don't know how you don't
feel positive about it as a Tigers fan, especially given
the fact that you know, you did have kind of
an offensive resurgence last game.
Speaker 4 (06:51):
And I also think the pitching sets up really well
that you'll.
Speaker 3 (06:54):
Probably have Kyle Finnegan available, You'll have Will Best available, you,
you'd have Troy Melton available.
Speaker 4 (07:01):
There's you know, and who knows.
Speaker 3 (07:03):
With with Casey meisby and taken out after three innings
the other day. You know, I don't know if you
see him come out of the bullpen. So to me,
this game tonight, you know, Trek Scooble is gonna get
the pitch until his arm falls off or he tells
aj Hinch verbatim, you know I'm done. In terms of
the offense, I mean it was just I was actually
(07:24):
at Game four and it just I mean that that
Comerica Park was was a morgue for four and a
half innings until you know it's it's one hit, and
then you're kind of joking like, oh, you know, here
we go. Here comes the offense, because we've seen this
story before. You get one base runner on and they
get stranded or you don't move them or you know,
(07:44):
the inning ends quickly after that. But it was, you know,
it was hit after hit after hit, and it was
just contagious as his hitting is in baseball. And yeah,
I think that the thing that I keep coming back
to Trent is like it feels like every player on
this roster, you know, has kind of had a moment
(08:06):
and you're still kind of looking down the checklist the
guys that maybe haven't had that moment yet, and there's
there's still room for that in game five. So you
have to hope a guy like you know, Zach McKinstry,
who came.
Speaker 4 (08:18):
Up pretty big in the last game. You know, even
a Parker.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
Meadows who really hasn't had his big moment yet. You
hope that those guys kind of joined the party. And
you know, baseball such an up and down game. You know,
you can you can explode for nine runs in one
game and you can come back and score zero the
next game. It just it is what it is. Look
at the Brewers. The Brewers got shut out last night.
You know, if you would have told me after Game
(08:41):
one against the cub that they would be sitting here
looking at.
Speaker 4 (08:44):
A game five, do or die.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
Going back to Milwaukee, I would have told you you're
nuts because of how good they they looked in those
first couple of games.
Speaker 4 (08:51):
So, you know, I think to be able.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
To see the ball the way the Tigers as well
as the Tigers were in the second and half a game,
for there's just not a better situation, especially given that
this team looked like they were laying face down on the.
Speaker 4 (09:08):
Mat for a while.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
One last thing for you, Ryan before we hit a
break here in about one minute, so I got to
make this one quick. But Lions do take on the
Chiefs on Sunday night football? Did the Chiefs scare you
out all anymore? And how do you see this one going?
Speaker 3 (09:20):
No? I mean I think you have to respect them
because of their their success and when you have, you know,
probably the best quarterback.
Speaker 4 (09:27):
In the league. I don't I mean, I don't think
anyone would push back on that. Still, you know, you
obviously have to play.
Speaker 3 (09:33):
It's a tough place to play, but I think the
Tigers have kind of already slayed that demon, as well
as several other demons in in the league, and you know,
within their own storyline here.
Speaker 4 (09:44):
So if any if anyone.
Speaker 3 (09:45):
Should feel you know, nervous going into that game at home.
Speaker 4 (09:49):
It's the Chiefs.
Speaker 3 (09:49):
They got to keep winning football games and stay alive themselves,
so I feel great about it.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
Ryan rebinowis Motown, Rundown. Follow him on Twitter at our
Rebino WIT's for Revs. I know it's a quick one,
but thanks so much for joining us.
Speaker 4 (10:01):
My pleasure, Trent, Enjoy your morning.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
Where do you go for Ireland's biggest thrillers, craziest finishes,
wildest upsets and fiercest post match debates.
Speaker 4 (10:10):
Good afternoon too, there, You're very welcome to the program.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
An awful lot of live sports on the way, well.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
Over a million of you go to Ireland's number one
radio station, Artie Radio one. Listen now on Artie Radio Player.
Speaker 5 (10:25):
Looking for something a little different for your next team day,
go quest. Carrig Mindes has twenty nine unique challenge rooms
that will test your club or corporate team's mental, physical,
and skill based strengths. No set route, just NonStop laughs
and friendly rivalry. The perfect environment for your team to
get to know each other off the field. There's two
separate experiences for kids and adults, and great post activity
(10:48):
food options. Book your next big day out at go
Quest dot i e
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